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The initial design plan aimed to define an alternative system of diacritical marks to be used in parallel with standard punctuation marks. The gl… Read More

The initial design plan aimed to define an alternative system of diacritical marks to be used in parallel with standard punctuation marks. The glyphs were drawn with a nearly vertical stress and with ink traps in all of the stroke junctions in order to tolerate cramped tracking and paper porosity, respectively. These two issues (cramped tracking and porosity) are both typical of small print runs of low-cost editions. Read Less

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Poly is a medium contrast serif font. With short ascenders and a very high x-height, Poly is efficient in small sizes. Thanks to its careful balance between the x-height and glyph widths, it allows more economy and legibility than standard web serifs, even in small sizes. The agglutinative language for which it was designed contains very long words. The goal was to develop a typeface that would tolerate cramped tracking and that would increase the number of letters on a single line. Poly is a Unicode typeface family that supports Open Type features and languages that use the Latin script and its variants.

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The initial design plan aimed to define an alternative system of diacritical marks to be used in parallel with standard punctuation marks. The glyphs were drawn with a nearly vertical stress and with ink traps in all of the stroke junctions in order to tolerate cramped tracking and paper porosity, respectively. These two issues (cramped tracking and porosity) are both typical of small print runs of low-cost editions.